Cinema
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
Longing for more
Some of the greatest movies ever made were incredibly long. But is a film lasting 13 hours just too much?
The gang master
Martin Scorcese’s new Mafia movie is the culmination of a great career
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
